Little could have been done to prepare for these fires i'm jed kim from marketplace the stock market has surged for much of the year men president trump like all presidents wants to take credit the last night he took it a step further and suggested the stock market can help fix the country's debt problem which got a lot of people scratching their heads marketplace's scott tung checks it out last night on fox news the president said the nation's debt grew during the past administration play barred more than ten trillion dollars rights and yet we picked up up five point two trillion gist of the stock market possibly picked up the whole thing in terms of the first i months in terms of value so you could say in one cents were really ah increasing values and maybe in the says we are reducing debt really for this we reached two professors who actually teach econ 101 steven kyle cornell says stocks and the nation's debt are entirely different assets to explain this and class he draws pictures by draw a picture of a building that the predatory then draw pictures of factory that are corporation the treasury debt is the iowa use the government owes their bonds stocks are ownership of private companies but wait kannu argue that stocks rise people get richer they pay more taxes and the feds pay off debt in from the mall way and i would under what mall it could help night in a way that suggests there's some dollar for dollar relationship to la anywhere even quote about okay how 'bout this the bull market can show that a good economy has replaced a bad economy with rising debt the problem is that's not the case says justin wolf first you can win a one universe the of michigan the stock market has been rising over the past few months no fast in europe for instance and the national debt is rising rising because federal spending exceeds the taxes coming in i'm scott tung for marketplace.